Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Record \Re*cord"\, v. i.
   1. To reflect; to ponder. [Obs.]

            Praying all the way, and recording upon the words
            which he before had read.             --Fuller.

   2. To sing or repeat a tune. [Obs.] --Shak.

            Whether the birds or she recorded best. --W. Browne.

Record \Re*cord"\ (r?*k?rd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Recorded}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Recording}.] [OE. recorden to repeat, remind,
   F. recorder, fr. L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- +
   cor, cordis, the heart or mind. See {Cordial}, {Heart}.]
   1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.
      [Obs.] ``I it you record.'' --Chaucer.

   2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.]

            They longed to see the day, to hear the lark Record
            her hymns, and chant her carols blest. --Fairfax.

   3. To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to
      printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to
      write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose
      of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to
      enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to
      record historical events.

            Those things that are recorded of him . . . are
            written in the chronicles of the kings. --1 Esd. i.
                                                  42.

   {To record a deed}, {mortgage}, {lease}, etc., to have a copy
      of the same entered in the records of the office
      designated by law, for the information of the public.

Record \Rec"ord\ (r[e^]k"[~e]rd), n. [OF. recort, record,
   remembrance, attestation, record. See {Record}, v. t.]
   1. A writing by which some act or event, or a number of acts
      or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the
      acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of
      temperature during a certain time; a family record.

   2. Especially:
      (a) An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts
          of some public body, or public officer, are recorded;
          as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the
          receiver of taxes.
      (b) An authentic official copy of a document which has
          been entered in a book, or deposited in the keeping of
          some officer designated by law.
      (c) An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the
          proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.
      (d) The various legal papers used in a case, together with
          memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as, it is
          not permissible to allege facts not in the record.

   3. Testimony; witness; attestation.

            John bare record, saying.             --John i. 32.

   4. That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or
      events; a monument; a memorial.

   5. That which has been, or might be, recorded; the known
      facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as
      in the life of a public man; as, a politician with a good
      or a bad record.

Source : WordNet®

record
     v 1: make a record of; set down in permanent form [syn: {enter},
          {put down}]
     2: register electronically; "They recorded her singing" [syn: {tape}]
        [ant: {erase}]
     3: indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The
        thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The
        gauge read `empty'" [syn: {read}, {register}, {show}]
     4: be aware of; "Did you register any change when I pressed the
        button?" [syn: {register}]
     5: be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This
        sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration
        camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" [syn: {commemorate}, {memorialize},
         {memorialise}, {immortalize}, {immortalise}]

record
     n 1: anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a
          photograph) providing permanent evidence of or
          information about past events; "the film provided a
          valuable record of stage techniques"
     2: the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had;
        "at 9-0 they have the best record in their league"
     3: an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever
        attested (as in a sport); "he tied the Olympic record";
        "coffee production last year broke all previous records";
        "Chicago set the homicide record"
     4: sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous
        grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating
        while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves [syn: {phonograph
        record}, {phonograph recording}, {disk}, {disc}, {platter}]
     5: the sum of recognized accomplishments; "the lawyer has a
        good record"; "the track record shows that he will be a
        good president" [syn: {track record}]
     6: a list of crimes for which an accused person has been
        previously convicted; "he ruled that the criminal record
        of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court";
        "the prostitute had a record a mile long" [syn: {criminal
        record}]
     7: a compilation of the known facts regarding something or
        someone; "Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the
        record'"; "his name is in all the recordbooks" [syn: {record
        book}, {book}]
     8: a document that can serve as legal evidence of a
        transaction; "they could find no record of the purchase"

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

record
     
         An {ordered set} of {fields},
        usually stored contiguously.  The term is used with similar
        meaning in several different contexts.  In a file, a "record"
        probably has some fixed length, in contrast to a "line" which
        may have any length and is terminated by some {End Of Line}
        sequence).  A {database} record is also called a "row".  In a
        {spreadsheet} it is always called a "row".  Some programming
        languages use the term to mean a type composed of fields of
        several other types ({C} calls this a "{struct}").
     
        In all these cases, a record represents an entity with certain
        field values.
     
        Fields may be of a fixed width ({bit}s or {characters}) or
        they may be separated by a {delimiter} character, often
        {comma} ({CSV}) or {HT} ({TSV}).
     
        In a database the list of values of a given field from all
        records is called a column.
     
        (2002-03-22)